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EMILY S. RUSSELL, YOF PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 79,782, dated July 7V, 1868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, EMILY S. RUSSELL, of Plymouth, in the county ofPlymouth,` and Stateof Massachusetts, -have invented an ImprovedToy-House; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in.-connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of thisspecification, is a description of my invention sulif` cient toenablethose skilled in the art to practise it.

The invention relates .to the construction of a toy designedparticularly fortheuse of lttlegrlsin playing house with dolls, andconsists primarilyin a toy-house, or a representation of a house, madeof pasteboard or equivalent thin material, having swinging doors andblinds, each of which, when open, shows, inl theV back,

ground, a representation of a hall, drawing-room, chamber, or otherapartment, while, when closed,.it h as the natural appearance .of doorsor windows closed by ordinary doors or blinds. Y

The invention also consists in making such a toy of two sheets, placedtogether, and united at opposite edges, the doors and windows being madein the outer sheet, (whichrepresentsthe outside of the house,) and thepictures oi' the rooms being painted or printed upon the innersheet,opposite the doorsand windows, this construction allowing paper dolls tobe slipped in between the sheets, and to bel thus moved from room toroom. within the honse. I n v l The invention also consists in combiningwith such a house a paper doll or dolls, with means for moving such Aa.doll from room to room without directly touching it. p

The drawing representsarfr'ont elevation of such a toy, showing one end,the side, and the roof of a-house in perspective.

adenotes the end of the house, having doors, b 6, opening into the hallu.

d denotes the side of the house, with sets of blinds, e e, each setclosingbver a window, as seen at f, or opening, and disclosing theapartment backof the window, as seen' at g. p v

In the roof i are windows, as seen 'at t', each having blinds to openand close, as seen, respectively, at k and l, the open, blinds lrshowing a` chamber, 'mpwith the-furniture therein, while the open-l`blinds eshow a l boudoir, and the open doors disclose the hall andhall-stairs. i y

Each set of closed blinds Vcovers a similar representationofenapartment, each apartment being"differently furnished from the others,so that the whole appearance is readiy changed by opening and closingdi'erent,

windows; l It will thus beV seenthat `by havingl severaldoor andwindow-openings, thusca closed, a greatvariety of changes can beproduced, greatly to the amusement vof a childL pableof-being .openedorr When the h ouse is made of two sh`eets,.the door and blinds arepreferably made by cutting the card or i sheet for the top, bottom, andouter edge' of each, and thenfoldingback `Athepiece ,thuspa'rtially cutout, the

fold constituting the hinge. Ifinade of one card, each blind or door mayhave u border-suhciently wide'to admit of its being cemented to thefront; p Y i The outside of the card, and the outer surface of eachdooror'.b lind,'i.scolored or printed to give it the desired appearance,(and-the surroundings ofthe house'may be1 shown in imitation ofshrubbey,-vines, Lc.,)'v and the space buck of each window ordoor-opening`isalsb colored or printed to properly represent theapartment beyond, the construction I prefer having the blinds, doors,and4 outside of the house represented on one sheet, and the apartmentson the sheet placed upon the back of this. When t'lis made, a doll, n,may be slid between the sheets, and, by means of a w-ire or a strip ofYcard, o, attached toit, may be made to movefrom room to room, aslwill bereadily understood. Y i

It will be obvious that a toy thus madejwill conduce to the'quietamusement of children oldenough to play with dolls, and especially tothediversionof little girls playing together, having great attractions formany children over any toy-houses and furniture requiring building orsetting up; p

There is nothing about 'the toy ljable'to'break or to gekunderrfoot, andit shows, o'r may be made to show, a, great variety of furniture andinside decorations: I i

I claim a toy-house, made of two thin sheets of material securedtogether,.th e outer sheetehaving swinging doors and blinds, concealingor disclosing representations of apartmentson the inner sheet, and thespace between the sheets being adapted to vmovexnentsot a doll,n,substantially as described.'

' EMILY s. RUSSELL'.

Witnesses: h

JN0. J. Rossetti, J. WALTER Src'cunn.

